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>He was successful in the end So it sounds like it was fine? Why would this prompt (haha) a change in their approach to things?

>we have people like Thiel and Luckey misinterpreting Tolkien Could you provide an example / be more specific about this?

Ok sure but in this sense it is already a rule (most people do not either prescribe these things to their kids or allow them to indulge in them) and what we're debating is how firm…

I think about this sometimes. On one hand, is it really "right" or net positive for adults to guide children into some specialized craft at a young age? Even if the kid shows some …

I don't disagree but you're moving the goalposts. I never said that they could achieve the profits of a typical tech business, just that they could be profitable. Also, the whole d…

All of those expenses could be trimmed in a scenario where OpenAI or other big labs pivot to focus primarily on profitability via selling inference.

They're doing about a billion per month in revenue by running proprietary models on GPUs like these. Unless they're selling inference with zero/negative margin, it seems like a bus…

Crazy that this (random blog post with no points and zero comments) is the only discussion of a major Ethereum upgrade on here. Even if the average commenter is firmly against bloc…

Nobody is forcing you to work for Mr Beast

Not only is Western Union significantly less reliable and significantly more expensive, as someone who gets paid in crypto the most expensive and painful parts of my finances are t…

Yeah, doesn't even make sense for something like this to be decentralized, it should be run by Rolex so they can catch edge cases and correct them by fiat

>It is certainly possible the court will disagree with the SEC, but I wouldnt bet on it. I would (not a lot, but I would). They lost on the Grayscale trust, they lost on XRP being …

No, you aren't, and it isn't vocal fry. Overtone singing is a distinct technique in Tuvan throat singing, and comparing it to a bandpass filter is accurate — as a whole, Tuvan thro…

Are there actual perverse incentives that come with "it being married to crypto" — keep in mind that there are demonstrable positive incentives — or is it just aesthetic distaste?

In which Theodore Blackman, CTO of the Urbit Foundation, responds to the "Plunder and Urbit" piece that was submitted here yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37057471…

>Write once media on a server is what you want How does that solve this problem: >[company will] go out of business and take down the servers with it

"...I find myself consistently reaching for the blog post that clearly articulates what Urbit is and why it is important, only to continuously be frustrated by the realization that…

>a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation," Where on the website do you see this?

The claim here is not that "all of mathematics is set theory", just that sets are sufficient to describe everything else. I don't know if that's correct, but it's certainly a more …

A blogpost from the Urbit Foundation on how Urbit's native language "Hoon" compares to Lisp.